Standard German vs. Swabian (HUGE DIFFERENCES!)

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I want to learn German and was curious on this dialect, because this is the dialect that Field Marshall Erwin Rommel spoke

Schwäbisch, Schweizerdeutsch, Bayerisch, Waliserdeutsch, Saarländisch/Luxembourgisch, u.s.w., könnten alle als eigenständige Sprachen beschrieben werden, es ist eher, dass der deutsche Sprachraum eigentlich eine ziemlich breite Definition hat, jedenfalls viel breiter als die englische Definition von was als Englisch eigentlich zählt.

Sounds so nice

I've always wanted to learn Schwäbisch. Most of my friends are still in and around Stuttgart, so I hear it all the time but I only learned Hochdeutsch.

Nein, eine Grombier ist eine Grundbirne, in Anlehnung zum Erdapfel

So awesome! I have family in the Stuttgart area and the older relatives speak full-on Schwäbisch so I really enjoyed this video.

Super Beitrag!

Vielen Dank! Es hat mir sehr gefallen. Ich haette gern auch andere Videos ueber Dialekte schauen -- Hessisch, waere toll aber auch Letzebergish, Alemanisch -- und gibt es auch Dialekte aus dem Osten Teil Deutschlands (ich bin kein Muttersprachler und habe keine Ahnung / weiss sehr wenig von dem Osten...). Herzliche Gruesse von einem Deutschlernenden und Fan ❤

I was born in Canada but am ethnic Swabian on my father's side (from the Legler family). I'd love to have some resources for learning Swabian in conjunction with my ancestors.

Muß i denn muß i denn zum Städt'le hinaus Städt'le hinaus und du mein Schatz bleibst hier

I learned some Swabian and didn't even know it. The -le thing for sure! It was a dialect spoken in the little town I lived in while stationed in Germany. So It happened to be what I heard, learned and in turn spoke. Just as children learn to speak. Never became fluent, but could hold my own well enough that I was the translator when out in a band of marauding GI's or when I had German friends over to watch a new movie. Several of my German friends didn't speak English, but their wives or Girlfriends did. Sometimes only about as well as I spoke German. Like the time Anna told my wife she got bit 10 times by a snake. Oh the horror until we realized it was mosquito bites, not snakes.

Aha! Now I see why my dad (80) has always called hard rolls like that “wassaweck!” We live in Cincinnati in the USA, a city that had a very large German immigration to it back in the 19th century, so much that certain neighborhoods were more German-speaking than English, and also keeping cultural traditions, even well into the 20th century. Many of these immigrants were from Swabia and Bavaria. So when he was a kid/teen in the 1940s/50s, the grocery and butcher and bakery in his neighborhood were all run by Southern Germans. Some of these dialect words apparently not only came over here, but then persisted for generations. Grumbeer(e) is another one I’ve heard. ( I’ve never heard any of these words from anyone who is Boomer generation or later though). I remember when I started learning German (at University), hearing my dad call a hard roll a wassaweck, and thinking, “Why is he calling a Brötchen a wassaweck?” I said, “What does that even mean? Water-way??” And he, never having actually studied German, was just like, 🤷🏻”I dunno, it’s just called a wassaweck. That’s what I always heard it called.” I asked my German teacher, who was from the north, and she had never heard that term. She was like, “No, the word for that is Brötchen. I have no idea why your dad is calling it that.” Lol

My wife is Swabian, she lives 20 mins from Ulm I know English and Spanish from birth but my wife’s Oma won’t talk to me unless I learn German 😅 we’ve been together for 7 years now and visit almost yearly so I’m hopping to learn, they visit us here in Miami in a few months 🤞🏽

Natürlich wollen wir den nächsten Dialekt hören!🤓🤗🥰

9:25 Han i da Stetten khörd?😄I komm ausm scheene Rommelshausen. Falls ja, Grüßle ausm Nachberort

Actually before b, p, d, t, g, k there is no ge- at all. Not even g’.

I See a Flugzeug in The Sky it hat Flügel heidenei

Auf Texas Deutsch sagt man auch mir und nicht wir.

"Grombiera" sind keine "krummen Beeren", sondern "Grundbirnen", analog zum ebenso schwäbischen "Äbiera" = "Erdbirnen", oder zum bairischen "Eadepfi" = "Erdäpfel", bzw. französisch "pommes de terre".